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American Pie

Director:Paul Weitz Writer:Adam HerzUniversal Pictures; 100 minutes; RRelease:7/99Cast:Seann Scott, Shannon Elizabeth, Chris Klein Aficionados consider film the finest of the arts, combining…

Brewer's: Pie

Looking for a pie's nest (French). Looking for something you are not likely to find. (See below.) He is in the pie's nest (French). In a fix, in great doubt, in a quandary. The pie places…

American Pie 2

Director:J.B. RogersWriter:Adam HerzUniversal Pictures; R; 104 minutesRelease:8/01Cast:Jason Biggs, Shannon Elizabeth, Alyson Hannigan It's hard to believe that a movie like American Pie 2…

morris dance

(Encyclopedia) morris dance or morrice dance, rustic dance of the north of England that had its origin in country festivals, such as those of May Day and Whitsunday. Reference to it in English…

Kaverin, Veniamin Aleksandrovich

(Encyclopedia) Kaverin, Veniamin AleksandrovichKaverin, Veniamin Aleksandrovichvĕnyəmēnˈ əlyĭksänˈdrəvĭch kəvyĕˈrĭn [key], 1902–89, Russian novelist and short-story writer. He was a member of the…

Brewer's: Pierre

A conspirator in Otway's Venice Preserved. He is described as a patriot of the bluntest manners, and a stoical heart. Uglier than Pierre du Coignet (French). Coignèes was an advocate-…

William Piper Biography

William Piperairplane manufacturerBorn: 1/8/1881Birthplace: Knapps Creek, N.Y. Called “the Henry Ford of aviation,” Piper mass produced affordable aircraft and is credited with popularizing…

Keith Piper Biography

Keith PiperAge: 76 Division III football coach whose Denison University teams were the last in the nation to run the single-wing offense more than 40 years after it went out of fashion;…

Piper, Edwin Ford

Piper, Edwin Ford[1871-1939](1)Born at Auburn, Neb., Feb. 8, 1871. Spent his early youth on a farm near his native town and in various parts of the cattle country of the State. Took his…

Brewer's: Piper's News

or Hawker's Hews, Fiddler's News. News known to all the world. “Le secret de polichinelle.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Piping HotPiper that Played…